Good morning! NYC announced a minimum wage of $17.96 per hour for food delivery workers. The new wage will go live next month, and is a huge increase from the current $7.09. Great news for gig workers, and will be interesting to see how the likes of DoorDash adjust their prices 🍕

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Meta launched MusicGen, a generative-AI tool to create music. MusicGen turns brief text descriptions into ~12 seconds of audio, and can optionally be “steered” by referencing existing songs. While the output isn’t fantastic just yet, it’s also not completely terrible…

It’s clear that generative-AI is coming in hot for the music world. Meta’s launch comes only a month after Google launched its own music LLM. Unlike Google however, Meta has open-sourced its music generator 🎶

♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Salesforce launches an enterprise cloud for generative AI

• Amazon Freevee gets 23 new free ad-supported channels

• Meta unveils generative-AI stickers in Messenger 

• Meta tests Reels on its Quest headset

• Microsoft ships voice questions for Bing Chat on desktop 

General and early-stage

• Navan offers a card tie-in for auto expense management

• Rex launches a social app to discover recommended places

• Djust unveils its B2B transactions commerce platform 

• Social Snowball ships a coupon abuse protection tool

• Termii launches a mobile app for customer engagement

🔍 Other good finds

• Spatial. How to think about building products on Vision Pro

• Limitless. Salesforce to invest $500m in generative AI startups

• Not so fast. FTC files to block Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal

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- Amol